It reflected a broader groundswell of debate that is beginning to erode the religious conservatives' long-uncontested control.
This action further eroded the institution of slavery in Louisiana while also helping to erode racial, religious, cultural and linguistic barriers that had previously divided people of African descent in the city.
Three Internet principles, in particular, will continue to erode the religious right's political power: the Internet culture's embrace of free expression, libertarian social media prowess, and the need to recruit young talent.
Furthermore, the fixation on NDEs, tales of previous lives, and so forth just further erodes religious faith by making the only valid confirmations for our faith be scientific ones.
Palestinians also see increasing visits over the past year by Jewish groups and right-wing lawmakers to the al-Aqsa plaza, revered by Jews as the site of two destroyed biblical temples and Judaism's holiest place, as eroding Muslim religious control of the compound.
I believe with each additional church and pastor, we are advancing God's kingdom and progressively eroding the spiritual evil of religious persecution.
Turkey has become a far more liberal country in recent years, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is praised by many for not letting his own deep religious beliefs erode the country's secular traditions.
The obscenity might be taken to be intrinsic to the content of the material itself (for example, that it depicts deviant sexual acts that are immoral in themselves) or it may lie in contingent effects that the material has (for example, that it tends to offend "reasonable" people, or to deprave and corrupt viewers, or to erode traditional family and religious values).
As old structures of religious life erode, new patterns of faith are forming.
This ruling must not be used as pretext by Washington to erode our right to religious liberty.
